8-year-old girl diagnosed with rare form of breast cancer to undergo mastectomy

The parents of an 8-year-old girl in Utah both battled cancer but never thought that their daughter would also have to go through the fight at such a young age.

WTVR noted that Chrissy Turner’s mother, Annette, had previously battled cervical cancer and her father, Troy, was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2008. So it was another crushing blow when the third grader was diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer. The little girl’s diagnosis of secretory carcinoma came after she felt a lump in her chest and didn’t know what it was.

"Only one in one million are diagnosed and she is the youngest that they've run across having this particular type of breast cancer," Annette said. "I broke down. It's a struggle every day worrying about my family, about my husband and now my baby girl."

As devastating as the diagnosis is Chrissy’s doctors at the Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City said that her cancer is treatable.

"It is very treatable," physican Brian Bucher said. "Chrissy will need to undergo a simple mastectomy ... to remove all the remaining breast tissue to prevent this cancer from coming back."

A GoFundMe page was set up earlier this month to help with the family’s medical bills and so far it has reached $22,000 of its $100,000 goal.

 

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